Budgeting is part of a larger, closed-loop process called "performance management." Performance management is a holistic approach to the way organizations direct and manage resources to achieve objectives. In the context of performance management, budgeting's central role is to support execution through the allocation of resources to the activities that drive value.

In every company, today's ideas determine tomorrow's market profile. With rising competition, success can be achieved through a well-defined innovation process--one that connects upstream idea valuation to downstream production and release-to-market. To accomplish this, companies need to take a holistic approach to innovation management, connecting the process throughout all phases of the innovation lifecycle.

The retail market is growing, presenting employees with more opportunities to find jobs that provide training, development and career progression-something today’s workforce demands. With improvement in the retail sector comes increased pressure to win the war for talent. This three-step checklist will help you identify your talent management strengths and weaknesses so you can recruit and retain the best people.

If you're reading this, you are likely paying out some form of base-plus-commission to your quota-carrying reps or channel partners. But are you deriving the maximum business value from a holistic Sales Performance Management (SPM) approach toward your incentive -oriented people, processes, and technologies?

With over 2,200 employees in 11 countries worldwide, SolarWinds’ rapid growth has earned it a place in the Forbes list of the top ten fastest growing technology companies. Their mission is to provide software that makes IT professionals’ jobs easier giving them tools to solve IT management problems of all kinds. Great service and real value are at the heart of their approach. SolarWinds puts users first and refuses to inflate the prices of its cutting edge, corporategrade products. These principles have brought them 250,000+ customers worldwide and a continuing path of growth and profit.

The rise of social media, coupled with the desire to build more engaged and productive workforces, has brought “active employee listening” to the forefront of management attention. No longer is it enough to encourage employees to speak up about topics that matter to them. Organizations today need to more actively solicit, analyze and engage in ongoing conversations with past, present and even future employees. Having access to the collective “employee voice” can help leaders achieve diverse goals, including identifying innovations, preventing discord and improving productivity, as well as building a better connection to the organization and its mission. So, how can organizations establish and manage mutually beneficial listening programs?
To better understand what companies are doing in the area of employee listening and the extent to which employees are willing to participate, we analyzed data from the 2015 IBM Smarter Workforce Institute WorkTrends Survey – a broad-based survey of ov

The rise of social media, coupled with the desire to build more engaged and productive workforces, has brought “active employee listening” to the forefront of management attention. No longer is it enough to encourage employees to speak up about topics that matter to them. Organizations today need to more actively solicit, analyze and engage in ongoing conversations with past, present and even future employees. Having access to the collective “employee voice” can help leaders achieve diverse goals, including identifying innovations, preventing discord and improving productivity, as well as building a better connection to the organization and its mission. So, how can organizations establish and manage mutually beneficial listening programs?

Competitive pressures in today's business world have caused a shift in the way Best-in-Class enterprises are viewing and engaging their suppliers and the source-to-pay processes that support those relationships.These leading enterprises are taking a more holistic view of the supply management workflow while also looking for better ways to communicate, collaborate, and transact with their trading partners.

Adobe has an exceptional understanding of, and a vision for, campaign management technology. We’ve drawn from our experience to create this document to help you better differentiate the myriad of solutions on the market. This guide provides a comprehensive list of questions and criteria to help companies evaluate campaign management solutions

The late 1990s marked AXA Bank’s foray into email marketing. For the first phase of this project, AXA Bank management decided to use a bulk email tool to push Web content to customers. However, this tool rapidly showed its limitations in terms of scalability and functionality. No personalization, tracking or reporting functionality was available, and many operations (such as list management) had to be performed outside the tool, by hand. Marketing teams also required constant IT support, especially as email volumes increased. By 2002, ready for a more sophisticated approach, the bank sought to personalize and expand its online marketing to improve effectiveness.

Device-centric management strategies have prevailed over the last several years, but this approach can no longer keep pace with the increasing number of remote workers who need to access more applications across multiple platforms. Enterprise IT leaders must shift from locking down devices to securing the corporate applications, data, and other proprietary content that reside on these devices. It’s time to move beyond mobile device management to a more holistic management method.

Device-centric management strategies have prevailed over the last several years, but this approach can no longer keep pace with the increasing number of remote workers who need to access more applications across multiple platforms. Enterprise IT leaders must shift from locking down devices to securing the corporate applications, data, and other proprietary content that reside on these devices. It’s time to move beyond mobile device management to a more holistic management method.

Device-centric management strategies have prevailed over the last several years, but this approach can no longer keep pace with the increasing number of remote workers who need to access more applications across multiple platforms. Enterprise IT leaders must shift from locking down devices to securing the corporate applications, data, and other proprietary content that reside on these devices. It’s time to move beyond mobile device management to a more holistic management method.

Given the increased complexities and requirements thrust onto data center management environments over time, a more holistic management approach is necessary for efficient and cost effective delivery of IT services. Authors and analysts Judith Hurwitz and Robin Bloor bring their research and extensive experience to light in respect to the state of data center management by building the case for automation as a key strategy for efficient and cost effective management.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how Reltio and IQVIA provide holistic data management solutions for traditional pharma, as well as for emerging biotech and consumer health companies, on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Using an API strategy as a foundation for BPM
Business Process Management is an important part of continuous improvement and business transformation, but many organizations struggle with implementing it effectively. Learn how a holistic API strategy, API-led connectivity, can help your organization implement BPM with ease.
This whitepaper will cover:
An overview of Business Process Management
A new way of thinking about implementing BPM with APIs
A walkthrough of a use case on how an organization uses API-led connectivity to successfully implement BPM
Best practices to adopt BPM with Anypoint Platform

This guide discusses the benefits of each capability and provides checklists to help you evaluate whether or not a particular vendor's solution addresses each of these areas effectively. You will also find a list of attributes and capabilities yous should look for in selecting a provider that can support the full breadth of your endpoint management requirements.

This guide provides a number of helpful tips for an effective evaluation of campaign activity, including:
• How to distinguish between measurement types
• An in-depth view on campaign measurement frameworks and dashboards
• Common campaign objectives